The National Forest Foundation (NFF) is soliciting applications from private landowners in Chaffee and Lake Counties who are interested in funding assistance to support wildfire mitigation activities, including mechanical forest thinning and other activities that would reduce the risk of high severity wildfire.
Funds will be directed over the next four years to support the implementation of the Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Chaffee and Lake Counties. The NFF will be accepting applications on a rolling basis to identify an initial set of landowners interested in participating in the program. Applicants will be evaluated and selected based on criteria that will maximize the effectiveness of the forest thinning and available funding and forester capacity.
This program is one of several funding sources supporting local wildfire mitigation efforts, so applicants who do not meet the criteria may have other opportunities to partner with the NFF to complete work on their land.
This work is made possible by a federal Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which the NFF and many partners, including Envision Chaffee County, Colorado State Forest Service, and others, secured late last year. Through this grant program, the NRCS supports public-private partnerships to fund and implement solutions to natural resource challenges throughout the country. The RCPP funding is being matched locally by Chaffee Common Ground funding and other federal, state, and private sources.
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